Planting season and harvest time have arrived: good reasons for the studio to open for a “Day of Quinces”. Quince trees are easy to grow in the garden and most of them are robust. In spring their flowers feed the bumblebees, during summer their foliage feeds insects on which feed the birds that have to feed their chicks – and …

The exhibition in the old barn at the Fork and Broom Press will be open Saturday 4th July 1 pm to 8 pm and Sunday 5th July 1 pm to 7 pm See you there!

The studio’s annual exhibition in our charming old barn will be on 4 + 5 July, which also is the final weekend of this year’s LandArt Culture Weeks. LandArt Culture Weeks are back along LandArt-Route No 5 and will be open for visitors from 20th June to 5th July. The event comes back every three years with artists studio’s and …

On the first weekend in Advent the studio will be open on both the Saturday and Sunday. All works, prints, broadsides and books, new and from the backlist, will be on show. Come in and browse all the shelves, tables and displays and select the very special Christmas presents for your very special friends and loved ones. We will be …

Parsnip Cake Folio-Grotesk: frm 1957, Bauer + Baum; Hobby: 1955, Walter Rebhuhn; Verona: 1958, Hans Matheis It was love at first bite, so to speak. We met Parsnip Cake for the first time in Scotland at Ceilidh Place, Wester Ross. It is a lovely place serving soup of the day, cake and they sell books as an extra treat.
Folio Grotesk …

Quiche Koch-Antiqua: 1922, Rudolf Koch; Delphin: 1951, Georg Trump Like Helvetica, Delphin was on stock in various sizes in almost all printing offices. It was a favourite for annoncing weddings and births. More often than not the type was quite worn down from being used a lot. Georg Trump must have enjoyed designing two variants each for lower case g …

Fupsbudel Post-Versal 1935 and Post-Antiqua 1939 Herbert Post (1903-1978) designed both varieties in the 1930s. The duo was quite successful and widely used for both wedding announcements and obituaries. The card printed to announce my birth was set from Post-Versal. Fupsbudel (which is low German for bag or satchel) is a recipe developed with a big smile towards the traditional …

Gnocchi Symphonie:1938, Imre Reiner; Mozart: 1927, Georg Belwe; Maxim: 1956, Peter Schneidler; Wilhelm Klingspor: Rudolf Koch, 1926; Sonderdruck; Boulevard: 1954, Günter Gerhard Lange; Arabella: 1936, Arno Drescher; Forelle: 1936, Erich Mollowitz; Legende: 1937, Friedrich Schneidler; Adagio: 1953, Karl Klauß; Eilschrift; Bernhard-Fraktur: 1912, Lucian Bernhard; Palette: 1950, Martin Wilke There is a wealth of fonts designed in the style of handwriting. …

Carrot-Coriander-Soup Quick: 1933, Howard A. Trafton; Trump mediäval: 1954, Georg Trump This soup is one of many served as soup-of-the-day in a lot of places. We have chosen Carrot-Coriander-Soup often at the Priory in Burford, and we enjoyed it every time. Burford is a lovely town in the Cotswolds, UK, where we alway made a detour to when staying for …

The first Schmausbuch, published in 2002 and sold out long ago, has been not just a recipe book, it also was the sample book of the studio‘s stock of metal type at the time. Schmausbuch Nummer 2 follows along this line and for its 52 pages metal and wood type was used that has arrived at the studio after 2002. …